How many times we abbreviate and then expand a little of that ?

[ramani]

We often use superfluous language..

IT Technology - (Information Technology technology)
FD drive - (Floppy drive drive)
PDF format file - (Portable document format format file)
GIF file
DOS system
LIBOR rate - (London interbank offer rate rate)

and such words with tail expansions. May be others could add many more.



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[cybercassie]

IP Protocol
TCP/IP Protocol

 

[strongm]

No, that's two more I just don't use that way. Ever.

 

[AnanthaP]

Language changes and usage with it. Slightly different example but see how technology changes usage.

Then - "Guitar" and "Electric Guitar".

Now - "Acoustic guitar" and "Guitar">

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[jcrater]

Another one that amuses me: dataset names with "file" as the last node...

WEBPN.PHONE.BILL.FILE

 

[SLamb88]

Here's another from the department of redundancy and repetition: My personal favorite, from the menu of the executive dining room at my company is "with aujus".

SLamb88

 

[Dimandja]

How about the irritating "deja vu all over again".

 

[sleipnir214]

Dimandja:
"deja vu all over again" is actually a quote of Yogi Berra



But as I understand it, deja vu is supposed to be a transitory state. If the state happens again, couldn't one say that it has happened all over again?



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[Dimandja]

Except "deja vu" means "all over again".

 

[sleipnir214]

Incorrect.

"Deja vu" means "already seen".





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[Dimandja]

I happen to speak french, and that is correct. In this context though, "all over again" is simply restating the same thing.

 

[sleipnir214]

I disagree.

"Deja vu" is thinking that you've experienced something before when in fact you're experiencing it for the first time.

And it seems to me you could very well experience that state all over again.



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[Dimandja]

That's hardly the meaning users of that dreadful phrase are trying to convey. You are free to stretch it though.

 

[ESquared]

Acoustic guitar" is an example of a retronym.

Another name for pleonasm is RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome).

One of these I've always liked:

ASPI Interface = Advanced SCSI Programming Interface Interface

But of course SCSI = Small Computer Systems Interface

So,

ASPI Interface = Advanced Small Computer Systems Interface Programming Interface Interface.

As for "ATM Machine" I've seen "ATM cash machine" which may as well lose the "ATM" entirely. Sigh.

 

[ppc386]

C:\Program Files"

If this directory explicitly contains "files",
then what do the other directories contain?

 

[ESquared]

Files of the type "non-program!

 

[ppc386]

Then they should be named accordingly!

"C:\My Documents Files"
"C:\Windows Files\System Files"

 

[ESquared]

Good point! "C:\Programs" Would have been a whole lot simpler (and fit in 8 characters, too).

 

[BIS]

I think it was on Windows 2000 that we had "Built on NT Technology"
New Technology Technology ?

 

[LesleyW]

Good lord, been using NT for years and never thought to ask what it stood for!

 

[strongm]

Didn't Microsoft do away state that NT was no longer an acronym some time ago? Just like Basic used to be BASIC and stood for Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, but now isn't and doesn't?